The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-10-19

We hope schools throughout the
county will all remember to properly
observe next Friday as Arbor Day.
No pleasantsr holiday could be given
the scholars, the fruits Of which most
show to greater advantge as the years
roll by.
Friday, Saturday and Sunday
mornings Of the past week early risers
saw the ground, walks, fences, &C.,
covered heavily with frost, resembling
a light fall Of snow. Ice froze 10 yes.
sells nearly half an inch in thickness.
1t was the hardest freeze of the season.
Mr.. George Klinestiver accom-.
panied his daughter, Miss Emma, to
Cleveland last week, where che will
remain a month under the care of the
physician who performed an operation
on one Of her limbs about year ago.
The doctor says the young lady will
entirely recover from her injury.
The Kent House at Lakewood,
Chautauqua Lake, said to have been
the finest hotel along the lake, was en-.
tirely destroyed by FIRE on Monday Of
this week, caused by the explosion of
a lamp. The loss is placed at $75, 900,
on which there was an insurance of
$4,000. The property was owned by
Mr.. Ed. Sliney of Cory.
We re.publish this week the pro.
gram for the Sunday School Conven.
tion, for the convenience of those in.
terested and who expect to attend. 1t
is complete and can be used for refer.
eDce by taking the paper with you to
the meetings or clipping it out. The
Convention assemblies in the M. E.
Church to morrow at 2 o'clock.
Hunters find game very scarce
and hard to get hereabouts. Never.
theless, George Bovard found q nice
plump pheasant perched upon his
grape arbor last Sabbath morning as
he came out Of the house. But we
guess the bird knew George want a
very good shot, anyway, and so had
no fears of roos.iDg there for the night.
The Oil City papers note the fact
this morning of the closing, by the
Sheriff of Venango county, of the
large hardware establishment of H.
G. Tinker at that place, yesterday, up.
on executions issued by DR.. j. A.
Ritchey and others. The amount of
the judgments is in the neighborhood
Of $40, 900, Of which DR.. Ritcbey holds
$4,000.
There is considerable inquiry
throughout Clarion county just now
concerning fire escapes. The court
has instructed constsbles and grand
jurors to return the owners of all
buildings coming within the provisions
Of the law, that are not furnished with
proper means of escape. In Clarion
the three leading hotels and the Nor.
NAL School buildings are subject to
the povisions of the act of assembly
Clarion Jaeksonian.
The large city weeklies are piling
their circulars into the country papers
this fall, as usual, with immense
offers Of clubbing arrangements. Ten
months in the year the country pub.
fishers are jeered and laughed at by
the city smarties. The other two
months they are surfeited and tired
out with pleas to extend the circula'
ton of some other mans paper, gen
orally at the expense of their own.
Tidioute Neius. That's about the size
of it.
The Wolcott we'll was down near
ly 1900 feet ou Monday of this weel
when the driller got bit fast in tn,
hole, having been running for severa
days without jars. About the time thi
little setback was met with, there wa
a slight show Of oil in the sand whicl
had just been tapped, but not sutfi
cieut to give that hope of gushe
which we had sincerely wished for
The we'll will likely be drilled severa
feet farther into the sand as soon a
the bit can be taken out.
"A large flock of wild pigeons wer
seen flying over the city yesterday
morning. The beech woods of Fores
County are said to be alive with them
Derrick.
If the first part of the above iteu
is no nearer correct than the latter
then it is evident that Oil City "lot
got" as the Indian called it, is im
proving. A few weeks ago the Der